Carlton H&A Discussion

[Mat0369]

Not really relevant to Carlton, but the AFL anti doping board dismissed ASADA's appeal on former Northern Bullants and St. Kilda footballer Ahmed Saad's 18 month suspension. ASADA wanted to extend the ban, but Saad is now free to be drafted at the end of this season and resume training in January next year with his new club in hopes of playing again. I really liked Saad when he was with the Bullants, I think Carlton should look at giving him a shot although I think the Saints will likely redraft him. He would give us another small forward option along with Jeff and Menzel.

[Vinny]

I can't imagine him going to Carlton but interesting.



So Juddy might play VFL, his second game in the 2s for his career! First time was in his debut year.

9 goals, 85 touches, 15 tackles giving him the greatest individual performance in the VFL? I think so. 8)

[elephants]

So Juddy might play VFL, his second game in the 2s for his career! First time was in his debut year.

9 goals, 85 touches, 15 tackles giving him the greatest individual performance in the VFL? I think so. 8)

Pfft, Spuddy is past it buddy ;) He'd be lucky to pick up those numbers all up for the rest of his career!

[Vinny]

Haha think what you want Ele. The man still has at least a season and a half left at least where he will dominate and win another brownlow aswell. :P

[ubeaut]

Carrots and Curnow should be back in the next couple of weeks, expect those poor scores to get worse.

Making me think about holding off on getting Selwood - How quickly will Carrots regain form? He held Joel to 74 sc points last season?

[Mat0369]

Carrots will likely play as more of an offensive/clearance player, but if we are in trouble he can go and do a job. The one I would really worry about is Curnow, he has been very underrated and does the job week in week out for the last 12 months. Luckily for Selwood he won't be back next week, but I see Everitt going with either him or Stevie J

[GoLions]

Carrots and Curnow should be back in the next couple of weeks, expect those poor scores to get worse.

Pfft, Rocky cannot be contained!

[Vinny]

Curnow would have done better but yeah Rocky is a jet.

Was travelling a long nicely but wasn't going crazy for the first three quarters but he had a stack of tackles.

Then at 3QT:  BANG!

[Ricochet]

Mathouse had his press conference this morning and found what he said to be very true. Especially the comment about playing kids and liked the confidence portrayed in not giving up with the finals fight.

"It's a blow, not a knockout punch (the loss to Brisbane)."

"I'm not here to hand out games. We are two games out of the 8. There will be no white flag here."

"Whoever says you play all the kids and drop senior players has never coached."

"so far so good with Juddy. We'll have to see how he pulls up after training today."

"I'm disappointed for Josh."

"why would there be any talk about extending my contract? I'm 17 months through a 36 month deal."

"Geelong are certainly not a 110-point worse team than Sydney."

"We know what's a stake this week."

[Vinny]

Yeah exactly, we are struggling but we aren't exactly done. Giving up is stupid, especially considering our situation, two games off the eight and won 4 of our last 6. The draw is tough from here but hopefully we can be competitive and if we are lucky maybe pull of an upset.

[Mat0369]

Judd to play in the VFL this weekend. Northern Blues are playing at Visy at 2pm according to the fixture. It should be a good game to get down and watch, all the boys generally turn up when a senior player is playing and having played the night before expect to see 99% of the list there.

[Vinny]

Is it on ABC or something man?

[Mat0369]

I had a look earlier and it doesn't look like. With Judd playing the VFL might find a way to put it to air, so keep an eye on it

[elephants]

Haha so he's never played in the VFL and his last (and only) WAFL game resulted in 30 possessions and 5 goals from midfield (as and 18 y.o).

This will be good :P

[Mat0369]

So are we thinking 60 and 10?